The Poison in the Blood
The book tells the story of the poisoned arrow that shot Paris (as in
Helen of Troy). In the beginning, Earth created monsters. One of these
was the Hydra. Heracles killed it, then dipped his arrows in the venom
of its blood. Years later, when his wife was abducted by a centaur, he
killed the rapist with one of these arrows. The dying centaur told
Heracles' wife to dip a robe in his blood, and give it to Heracles as a
token of her love. Heracles put on the robe, and was burned alive by
the poison. He built himself a funeral pyre, but no one would light it.
Finally, a small boy named Philoctetes did as Heracles asked, and
Heracles left him his arrows as a reward. It was with one of these
arrows that Paris was shot. Dying, he was taken into the woods where
there lived a goddess who had once loved Paris, and had the power of
healing. But she refused to cure him, and sent him away. Repenting, she
then hurried after him, but it was too late.
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The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, which was based in large part on Pierre Plantard’s Priory of Sion.
The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London, as a follow-up to a BBC TV documentary on the series Chronicle. A sequel to the book, called The Messianic Legacy, was published in 1987. The original work was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version in 2005.
